STANDINGS | SCHEDULE | RECORD BOOK

SAN FRANCISCO - Pac-12 women’s gymnastics heads into the final three weeks with the race to the regular season title heating up as six teams remain in contention. All eight programs are ranked in the top 27 with four in the top 11 (No. 4 Utah, No. 5 UCLA, No. 6 California, No. 11 Oregon State) of the Road to Nationals rankings, which switched to National Qualifying Scores (NQS) this week. Week seven was not without some drama as the top-10 matchup between UCLA and Cal ended in the league’s third tie and Arizona State upset Utah with their first win over the Utes since 2003. Week eight is another full slate of conference duals, beginning with the top four teams in the standings squaring off on Friday night. Cal visits Utah in a top-10 showdown to get the weekend started and all four duals will air live on Pac-12 Networks.

THIS WEEK

• Friday night’s meeting between No. 6 California and No. 4 Utah in Salt Lake City looms large as the Bears and Utes are the top two teams in standings heading into the weekend. Cal remains unbeaten in Pac-12 action at 3-0-2 while Utah is looking to rebound after suffering the upset at Arizona State on Monday. The Bears will hope for a repeat of last year when they upset then-No. 3 Utah in Berkeley and if they can pull it off again it would be their first back-to-back regular season dual wins over the Utes since they joined the Conference. The meet is set to start at 5 p.m. PT/6 p.m. MT and will be live on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Mountain.
• A second top-25 Friday-night dual is on the books with No. 11 Oregon State traveling to the Bay Area to face off with No. 24 Stanford. The Beavers are the only other unbeaten team in league competition and have not lost at a meet since finishing second second at the Wasatch Classic on Jan. 14. The Cardinal are looking for their first regular season dual win in the series since 2015. The action gets going at 7 p.m. PT and will be live on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Oregon.
• The Sunday afternoon gymnastics doubleheader on Pac-12 Network & Pac-12 Arizona will feature No. 5 UCLA at No. 27 Arizona. The Wildcats have not beat the Bruins since 2006 and the Bruins will be motivated to continue that streak to keep their regular season title hopes alive. Action gets underway at 12 p.m. PT/1 p.m. MT in Tucson.
• Week eight will end with No. 22 Arizona State in Seattle to take on No. 26 Washington in Alaska Airlines Arena at 2 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Arizona and Pac-12 Washington. The Sun Devils will hope to carry the momentum over from the huge win over the Utes and the Huskies will be looking for an upset of their own and their first Pac-12 win of the year. ASU will try to make it three straight conference dual wins in the series against the Huskies.

WEEK SEVEN ROUNDUP

• No. 11 Oregon State stayed unbeaten at home in 2023 with a 197.025-196.375 win over Arizona. The Beavers kept alive a winning streak against the Wildcats that dates back to 2007. Sophomore Jade Carey earned her fifth Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week honor after sweeping the individual events and winning the all-around title with a 39.875, which broke her own program record for the AA and is the best all-around score in the country in 2023. Carey earned perfect 10s on the floor and vault this season and has now swept all the titles in a single meet three different times this year.
• Cal and UCLA met in Berkeley in a meet that ended with the third tie in as many weeks in conference duals. Both squads turned in stellar performances, each posting season-high team scores of 197.975. The Bears’ team total was their second highest in program history, while UCLA recorded its highest road total in four years. Cal also tied the program record on beam (39.525) with UCLA posting a season-high 49.625 on the same event. The meet also served as the first collegiate meeting between sisters senior Margzetta Frazier of UCLA and freshman eMjae Frazier of Cal, with the freshman tying the Bears’ program record of 39.700 to win the first all-around title of her career and first Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Week award.
• The Sun Devils came up with the biggest win of the weekend, upsetting No. 4 Utah in Tempe by just .050 of a point (197.550-197.500). It was ASU’s first win over the Utes since 2003 and first in Tempe since 2000 behind the 11th-best score in program history. The Gym Devils used their second-best score all-time on bars to grab the lead and didn’t look back as senior Hannah Scharf anchored the floor lineup with a career-high 9.925 to secure the victory. 
• Week seven ended with a rematch in Seattle between Stanford and UW, a week after the two squads met in the Bay Area for a non-conference bout. After the Cardinal captured its first dual meet win against the Huskies since 2017 at home in the first meeting, Stanford made it two straight on Monday with the victory (197.075-196.625) that did count towards league standings. It was the Cardinal’s best regular season team score since 2016 and earned the best team bar score since the same year (49.525).

BY THE NUMBERS

• After the conference had not seen a tie in a regular season league dual since Feb. 23, 2020, there’s been three straight weeks with ties. The first came between Oregon State and UCLA on January 29 in LA, the second came a week later as Oregon State hosted California at Gill Coliseum on Feb. 10 and the third was between UCLA and California in Berkeley last weekend. 
• On Feb. 14, OSU’s Jade Carey and UCLA’s Jordan Chiles shared Gymnast of the Week honors after both posted scores of 39.825 in the all-around, which was the highest score in the country that weekend and the second-highest all-around score this year.
• On Feb. 10, Arizona came out on top over Washington in Tucson, ending a streak of six straight dual wins in the series by UW. The Wildcats came from behind to narrowly edge out the Huskies 196.800-196.750.
• In UCLA’s win over Arizona State on Feb. 10, the Bruins posted season-highs on bars (49.575) and floor (49.675), with both scores ranking tied for ninth-highest in those events in program history.
• Stanford, competing at the Metroplex Challenge outside of Dallas on Feb. 11, recorded its highest team total since 2020 (196.725). 
• No. 4 Utah’s 198.200 in the win over then-No. 5 UCLA on Feb. 3 is the fourth-highest team score in the country this season, while they are one of just five teams to post a 198+ this year. The Utes have scored 197.275 or better in all six meets this year with their only defeat coming against top-ranked Oklahoma. The 198.200 is tied for fifth-best score in program history.
• Utah matched its school record on beam against UCLA on Feb. 3, scoring a 49.775. It is the best mark on beam in the country this season and highest score on any event overall in 2023.
• Cal’s score of 197.600 in the win over Arizona State on Feb. 4 was the sixth-highest score in program history, while its 9-0 mark to start the year was one win shy of matching the record of 10, which was set back in 2015. 
• The Conference has seen eight Perfect 10s during the 2023 season. Reigning Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week leads the way with four. Two came on floor and vault in the win over Arizona on Feb. 18 and the other two came on the same events at the Wasatch Classic on Jan. 14. Carey is the first OSU gymnast to record a pair of perfect scores in a meet since former Beaver Chari Knight accomplished the feat in 1993. Utah senior and two-time Pac-12 Specialist of the Week Maile O’Keefe, after posting her first 10.0 of the season on beam Feb. 3, followed that up with a second straight 10.0 on beam and sixth of her career to win the event at the Metroplex Challenge on Feb. 10. UCLA’s Jordan Chiles notched her first 10.0 of the season on floor in a win over No. 20 Arizona State on Feb. 10. Utah’s Kara Eaker posted a 10.0 on beam (second of her career) on Jan. 13 en route to winning Pac-12 Specialist of the Week on Jan. 17. 
• Oregon State’s 197.275 in the tie at UCLA on Jan. 29 was their highest score at UCLA in program history. 
• In the Oregon State and UCLA tie on Jan. 29, 2020 Olympic Team teammates Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles placed first on every event with Chiles winning bars, the pair tying for first on the floor and Carey taking the vault and beam titles and the all-around title just ahead of Chiles in second.
• OSU’s Carey, a five-time Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week honoree this season, is the only Pac-12 gymnast to win all four event titles and the all-around in a meet this season and she’s now done it three times (Beaver Quad Meet on Jan. 21, vs. No. 7 California on Feb 10, vs. Arizona on Feb. 18). 
• With its win over Stanford on Feb. 4, Cal continued its recent dominance in the series having won the regular season rivalry meet every year since 2014.
• Arizona State made it seven straight dual wins over in-state rival Arizona on Feb. 4 as the GymDevils edged the GymCats 196.800-196.475 in Tempe. 
• UCLA freshman Selena Harris, the No. 1 ranked recruit in the nation last year, has lived up to her billing. Harris earned five straight Freshman/Newcomer of the Week awards to start the season, winning the all-around twice (at Wasatch Classic, at Washington) and scoring a 9.9 or better in 22 of her first 28 collegiate events, which has included eight individual events titles. Her five consecutive awards tied the Pac-12 record for most consecutive weekly awards, held by Toni-Ann Williams from California in 2015. The all-time record for most honors in a season since the award was introduced in 2013 is six, held by Williams, Utah’s MyKayla Skinner (2017) and Oregon State’s Jade Carey (2022).
• On week three (Jan 17-19), the Conference saw two gymnasts reach milestones - UCLA’s Margzetta Frazier and Washington’s Amara Cunningham each completed 100 consecutive career routines without a single fall during competition.
• UCLA nabbed the first career win for first-time head coach Janelle McDonald on Jan. 14 as the Bruins impressed in the night session over Washington (196.550), Minnesota (196.325) and Boise State (195.050) at the Wasatch Classic in Salt Lake City. Winning all four events, UCLA’s 197.850 was its highest score on the road since 2019.
• Through seven weekends, team and individual titles are as follows:
  • TEAM: California, 5 (Session 3 Super 16; Session 2, Wasatch Classic, at Arizona; vs. Stanford; vs. Arizona State); Stanford, 6 (Session 2 Super 16; vs. San Jose State, at Arizona State; vs. Arizona; vs. Washington (x2)); Utah, 5 (vs. LSU; Rio Tinto Best of Utah; vs. Washington, vs. UCLA; Metroplex Challenge); Oregon State 5 (Beaver Quad Meet; vs. Rutgers; at Washington; vs. Arizona); UCLA 3 (Session 1, Wasatch Classic; at Washington; vs. Arizona State); 2 Arizona (Arizona Quad Meet, vs. Washington); 2 Arizona State (vs. Arizona; vs. Utah).
  • INDIVIDUAL: Jessica Castles, ARIZ - BB; Alysen Fears, ARIZ - UB; Malia Hargrove, ARIZ - VA (x4), FL, AA; Sirena Linton, ARIZ - BB; Emily Mueller, ARIZ - FL; Sarah Clark, ASU - UB (x4); Jordan Jaslow, ASU - FL; Jada Mangahas, ASU - FL (x2); Hannah Scharf, ASU - FL (x3), UB (x2), AA (x2); Anaya Smith, ASU - VA (x2); Emily White, ASU - VA, FL, UB, BB, AA; Ella Cesario, CAL - UB; eMjae Frazier, CAL - FL (x3), BB, VA, AA; Nevaeh DeSouza, CAL - AA, VA (x2); Mya Lauzon, CAL - AA, FL (x3), VA (x3), BB (x2); Andi Li, CAL - FL, AA (x2), UB (x4), BB; Maddie Williams, CAL - UB (x3); Jade Carey, OSU - AA (x5), FL (x5), VA (x7); UB (x5), BB (x6); Ira Alexeeva, STAN - BB (x2); Madison Brunette, STAN - FL; Clair Dean, STAN - FL (x2); Brenna Neault, STAN - AA (x2), BB; Isabela Onyshko, STAN - BB; Anna Roberts, STAN - AA (x2), FL (x4), VA (x4), UB; Chloe Widner, STAN - AA, UB (x2), BB (x4), FL; Amara Cunningham, WASH - VA, FL (x2); Skylar Killough-Wilhelm, WASH - VA, BB, UB; Chae Campbell, UCLA - FL (x2); Jordan Chiles, UCLA - UB (x5), VA (x3), BB (x2), FL (x3), AA (x3); Selena Harris, UCLA - UB (x2), BB (x4), VA, AA (x2); Kara Eaker, UTAH - BB (x2); Jillian Hoffman, UTAH - VA (x2); Cristal Isa, UTAH - UB (x2); Grace McCallum, UTAH - AA, UB (x3), FL (x2); Maile O’Keefe, UTAH - BB (x5), UB; Abby Paulson, UTAH - BB; Jaedyn Rucker, UTAH - VA (x3); Mckenna Smith, UTAH - VA, AA.
• Utah opened the season taking down the then-No.6 LSU Tigers (197.275-196.775) in front of a packed house of over 11,000 fans at the Huntsman Center in an event that aired live on ESPN2. It was Utah’s highest season-opening score since 2005 and the third-best in program history. The Utes improved to 62-6 all-time in season openers.
• California kicked off its season with a historical performance, posting its best overall score in a season-opening meet in program history. The Bears’ 197.457 was the 11th-best team score all-time and secured them the first-place finish in their session at the Super 16 event in Vegas. Cal’s No. 3 Road to Nationals ranking after week one was its highest in the ranking system in program history.
• The Huskies and the Bruins also recorded their highest opening scores in more than a decade as Washington posted its best since 2004 and UCLA its best since 2005 as they competed at different sessions of the Super 16 event in Las Vegas. 

ROAD TO NATIONALS RANKINGS

• The Road to Nationals rankings serve as the official rankings for NCAA gymnastics as it tracks team and individual scores overall and by event. After week seven competition the rankings switched to the National Qualifying Score (NQS) rather than a straight average. The NQS, which is calculated by taking the highest six scores of the season, three of which must be road scores, then dropping the high score and averaging the remaining five, is ultimately used to determine which programs qualify for NCAA Regionals. Through seven weeks of competition, six of eight Pac-12 programs are currently in top 25 in the country and all eight sit in the top 27, including three in the top 10 - No. 4 Utah (197.575), No. 5 UCLA (197.530) and No. 6 California (197.500).
• Oregon State has made the biggest jump of any team in the country in 2023, moving up 13 spots - No. 26 to currently No. 11 - from week one to week seven with a 197.180 NQS average. Arizona State came in at No. 22 in the first NQS (196.360), while Stanford is at No. 24 at 196.280. Washington (196.115) and Arizona (196.105) sit at 26th and 27th, respectively. 
• On team events scores - Utah holds the nation’s best NQS (49.555) and best overall score (49.775) on the beam this year with Oregon State in fourth (49.440), California in fifth (49.400) and UCLA in a tie for eighth (49.290); On vault, Utah (49.295) is fifth and California (49.270) is tied for seventh; On bars, California is third (49.485) followed by UCLA (49.450) in fourth and Utah in eighth (49.345); UCLA has the Pac-12’s top floor average of 49.550, which ranks tied first in the country while Oregon State is tied for sixth at 49.410 and California is tied for 10th (49.360)..
• Several individual gymnasts rank among the top-10 performers in the country on individual events: 
  • In the all-around, Pac-12 gymnasts own the top three NQS averages in the country, with reigning Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week, OSU’s Jade Carey and her 2020 Olympic teammate, UCLA’s Jordan Chiles, tied for first at 39.705 and UCLA freshman Selena Harris in third at 39.650. California’s Andi Li is ninth at 39.500.
  • In vault, Carey leads the country with a 9.960 NQS average with Chiles in eighth at 9.905 and Harris in a tie for 10th at 9.900.
  • On bars, UCLA’s Chiles is tied for second at 9.960, followed by Cal’s Li in fifth at 9.950, fellow Bear Madelyn Williams in eighth at 9.935 and OSU’s Carey and UCLA’s Harris in a tie for ninth at 9.925. 
  • On the floor, OSU’s Carey is tied for second at 9.950, followed by UCLA’s Jordan Chiles in a tie for fourth at 9.944 and fellow Bruin Chae Campbell in a tie for fifth at 9.940.
  • On the balance beam, Utah’s Maile O’Keefe and OSU’s Carey hold the top two NQS averages this season with O’Keefe at 9.970 and Carey at 9.945. UCLA’s Harris is tied for fifth with Utah’s Kara Eaker with a 9.925.

PRESEASON RANKINGS

• All 8 Pac-12 women's gymnastics teams were ranked in the top 25 of the 2023 Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) Preseason Poll. The annual preseason poll, which is voted on by Division I women's gymnastics coaches, featured every Pac-12 program in the top 25 for the first time since 2014. The eight teams in the top 25 were tied for the most with the SEC.
• Utah, which finished third at the national championships and won its second consecutive Pac-12 title in 2022, was the Conference's top-ranked team coming in at No. 3 with a pair of first-place votes. It was the Utes' highest preseason ranking since they were picked second overall in the national poll in 2010.
• Joining Utah in the top 10 was California at No. 8 and UCLA at No. 10. Oregon State checks in at No. 14, followed by Stanford at No. 17, Washington at No. 21, Arizona State at No. 24 and Arizona at No. 25. 

OLYMPIC STRENGTH 

• Pac-12 lineups this season feature four Olympic medalists from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Reigning Pac-12 Gymnast and Freshman of the Year, Oregon State's Jade Carey (USA) won an individual gold medal in the floor exercise, All-American, UCLA's Jordan Chiles, and Utah's Grace McCallum were silver medalists in the team competition with the United States, and Utah's Amelie Morgan helped Great Britain to team bronze, which was its first gymnastics medal since 1928.
• Rounding out the Pac-12 with Olympic ties are UCLA's Brooklyn Moors, who competed for Canada in Tokyo, and Utah's Kara Eaker and UCLA's Emma Malabuyo, who were alternates for the United States.
• Carey and Chiles recently also won individual medals at the recent 2022 World Championships and a silver medal team championship. Bruin freshman Ciena Alipio also competed at the World Championships, winning a silver medal on the balance beam.

ALL-AMERICAN PARTY 

• The Pac-12 has 17 All-Americans that returned this year that have won over 50 career All-American honors, including reigning USA Gymnastics Athlete of the Year Jade Carey, who was an eight-time All-American during her freshman campaign at Oregon State last year.
• Other returning All-Americans include: Abby Brenner, UTAH; Chae Campbell (4-time), UCLA; Jordan Chiles, UCLA; Kara Eaker, UTAH; Margzetta Frazier (3-time), UCLA; Madi Dagen, OSU; Nevaeh DeSouza (3-time), CAL; Cristal Isa (5-time), UTAH; Andi Li (3-time), CAL; Sirena Linton, ARIZ; Grace McCallum (5-time), UTAH; Maile O'Keefe (11-time), UTAH; Abby Paulson (4-time), UTAH; Jaedyn Rucker, UTAH; Hannah Scharf (3-time) ASU; Sage Thompson, UTAH.

PAC-12 PRESEASON POLL & WATCH LISTS

• In the Pac-12 Preseason Coaches Poll defending Pac-12 champion Utah was selected as the preseason favorite to claim a third straight Conference title in 2023. UCLA checked in at second place in the poll. The two teams have taken turns capturing Conference titles since 2014, with UCLA winning in 2016, 2018 and 2019, and Utah in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2022. California finished third in the poll followed by Oregon State in fourth, Stanford in fifth, Washington in sixth, Arizona State in seventh and Arizona in eighth.
• In December, the Pac-12 introduced the inaugural preseason watch lists for the 2023 season, which were nominated by the eight Pac-12 coaches. The 12-member Preseason Watch List included: Brenna Brooks, WASH; Jade Carey, OSU; Jordan Chiles, UCLA; Madi Dagen, OSU; Malia Hargrove, ARIZ; Caroline Herry, ARIZ; Skylar Killough-Wilhelm, WASH; Andi Li, CAL; Grace McCallum, UTAH; Hannah Scharf, ASU; Emily White, ASU; and Chloe Widner, STAN. The 4-member Newcomer Watch List included: eMjae Frazier, CAL; Selena Harris, UCLA; Anna Roberts, STAN; and Makenna Smith, UTAH.

BEST IN THE WEST

• For the first time in Pac-12 history, every Pac-12 Women’s Gymnastics program was selected to compete at the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Regionals last season. (All eight current programs were selected).
• Utah advanced to its 46th-consecutive national championship after winning the Seattle Regional and is the only program in the nation to qualify to every national championship, including all 40 NCAA Championships (began in 1982). Several individuals from the conference also advanced to compete at nationals.
• Utah advanced to the NCAA Finals and finished third overall for the second consecutive year.
• All eight teams finished in the Top 26 in the final rankings - #3 Utah, #11 California, #12 UCLA, #14 Stanford, #17 Oregon State, #21 Washington, #22 Arizona State, #26 Arizona.

ON TV 

• Pac-12 Networks will broadcast 22 women’s gymnastics meets this season as well as the 2023 Pac-12 Women’s Gymnastics Championships, presented by Sprouts, on Saturday, March 18. Utah’s battle with LSU on Friday, Jan. 6 aired live on ESPN2 and ESPN also carried Utah’s non-conference meet at No. 1 Oklahoma on Sunday, Jan. 22. The league matchup between Utah and UCLA on Friday, Feb. 3 was the final Pac-12 regular season meet airing on ESPN.

2023 PAC-12 WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIP

• Tickets for the 2023 Pac-12 Women’s Gymnastics Championships, presented by Sprouts, are on sale now at Pac-12.com/tickets. The one-day, two-session event returns to the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah on Saturday, March 18.

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